Nothing to See Here at Halas Hall, Move Along

The theme of the day across the internet and in television reports was how crazy of a day it was at Halas Hall

Yes, it's not every day the defensive coordinator resigns after an unexplained absence for over a week, and it happens when the starting quarterback says some things about coaches so controversial that he has to actually talk to the media again later in the locker room to walk it back. Imagine that, talking to reporters in the locker room.

It made losing starting left tackle Braxton Jones on injured reserve Wednesday to a neck injury seem so "oh by the way."

And then they cut quarterback Nathan Peterman, which really might actually not be a big deal as they could need the roster spot and they can put him on the practice squad if he and they both want.

Still, that's quite the ledger for one day.

It might even rank as the strangest day if you hadn't around to see:

Dave McGinnis hired as coach, refuse the job, go to O'Hare and hold an impromptu press conference at the gate while his waiting wife tells him the plane back to Arizona was boarding, all before sweating Ted Phillips got sent out to the podium by Michael McCaskey back at Halas Hall to explain to everyone why they don't have the coach they hired.

Or you didn't get out of your car in the media parking lot only to see a large man who resembled 300-pound defensive lineman Jeremiah Ratliff standing about 40 feet away talking in a somewhat loud voice and looking very animated, and you walk a foot beyond an SUV and past a tree where you have a better look and see it's actually GM Ryan Pace who Ratliff is having this rather heated discussion with, then find out the defensive lineman has allegedly said he "felt like killing everybody" at Halas Hall and that the place was on lockdown.

Or hadn't been around for the whole Tank Johnson gun charges and later the murder in a bar of his "body guard" Willie Posey during the Bears' run to the Super Bowl.

Or you hadn't been standing by the road in mid-March with four or five other reporters in a foot and a half of slushy snow nowhere near Lake Forest, but not too far from where defensive end Alonzo Spellman was holed up in the house of his publicist threatening something unspecified, before he ran down Route 22 the next day without his shirt and shoes on after escaping from the hospital.

Or hadn't seen Curtis Enis go from devout, respectful, Bible-thumper one year to a loud, irreverent foul-mouthed type who cut sleeves off his practice jersey, put an extra 4 on it so it read 444, and told Jewish colleague and columnist Mike Nadel, "Well, I have no problem with being Jewish. I like to get money and make things happen."

Or waited in Lacrosse, Wis. forever for fourth-round draft pick Alonzo Mayes to arrive and end his holdout (yes, a fourth-round holdout) only to not arrive until a day later because he simply missed several flights. His explanation: "Sometimes it just ain't yo day."

Or lived through Brandon Marshall and his impromptu, bizarre 40-minute press conference over something some woman accused him of somewhere, sometime, and, yawn.

Or saw starting cornerback Tom Carter exit the locker room for the final time after being cut but not before leaving his locker empty except for a few bullets about 5 inches long, standing up prominently for all reporters to see—only to learn the defensive coordinator is giving them out for big hits in games.

Or lived through the Terry Shea, Gary Crowton, John Shoop, Dowell Loggains, weepy Aaron Kromer, Mark Helfrich, and insert name here, hit parade of offensive cooridnators.

And none of this even includes Olin Kreutz's infamous punchout of Fred Miller at an FBI shooting range, running back Thomas Jones reportedly punching Cedric Benson, Martellus Bennett body slamming Kyle Fuller and Kyle Long using his helmet to play whack-a-mole with the heads of Bears defensive linemen during training camp scrimmage.

If you had, then you would probably call Jones going on IR, Fields' comments and walk-back, Peterman's release and Williams' resignation something else.

You would call it a Wednesday.

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